... Matthew Brennan Tim Jakobson Roman Kristeva Julia Sly & the Family Stone Owen Wilfred Bakhtin Mikhail Last Poets Mutabaruka Public Enemy Rampolokeng Lesego Scott Heron Gil postcolonial poetry South Africa Dickinson Emily Hass Robert Homer Palmer Michael Virgil Whitman Walt Burt...

...This chapter examines how postcolonial poetry responds to the technology, alienation and other features of global modernity. It compares this response to those of the more canonically modernist poetries of the Euro-American metropole and of the Harlem Renaissance. This chapter describes the shared...

...What is the relation between two of the most significant areas of twentieth-century literary achievement, namely modernism and postcolonial poetry? How does postcolonial poetry converge with and diverge from modernism? How do postcolonial poems understand their relation to modernism? And what...